I'm not a vindictive person, but Ron deserves the largest sentence. That is obvious. He has a long list of priors, including drugs, & it is his daughter, who he had custody of, who's missing & probably dead. & unless LE can prove Misty's guilt, in the Haleigh case, I think she deserves leniency. Now, she may have a juvenile record, but so might Ron, so that doesn't really mean much, to me. I hope Hope gets a good appeal lawyer-someone who's willing to do something, besides just lay down. & honestly, I think Donna has served enough jail time, unless they can prove she brought the drugs in, & then I'd expect to see a Dr. or somebody else arrested. In the case I mentioned earlier, another woman was charged with 9 counts of trafficking, (involving over a thousand pills), & resisting arrest, among other things. She has no job. Although this is very similar to Misty's case, (but worse), she was ordered a $36,000 bond, or house arrest. I don't get these discrepancies. Justice may not always be fair, but on these 'mandatory minimums', there shouldn't be such a wide gulf, from person to person. From the way these other women are being treated, I don't see them serving anywhere near the minimums, if any time at all. Because why let a defendent go home & back to work, if she's looking at spending the rest of her life in prison? She'd be a flight risk, to say the least. & the law needs to get its priorities straight. I can think of a lot of things, besides drugs, that I'd rather see mandatory minimums imposed on. These kind of laws pretty much take a judges job right away from him. not fair. & I get the feeling that these lawyers are not used to fighting for their clients. just make the easy, 'always acceptable' plea, & move on to the next sucker. But, this case is different, as they're finding out, & instead of fighting, they're just laying down, waving a white flag.
